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DVIDS: The 35th Air Defense Artillery Brigade hosted its 2018 Missile Defender of the Year banquet, November 16, at Osan Air Base, South Korea. The banquet recognized the outstanding achievements of air defense teams from all over South Korea. Brigadier General Michael Morrissey, commander of the 94th Army Air and Missile Defense Command attended as…
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U.S. Army: The 35th Air Defense Artillery Brigade hosted its 2018 Missile Defender of the Year banquet, November 16, at Osan Air Base, South Korea. The banquet recognized the outstanding achievements of air defense teams from all over South Korea. Brigadier General Michael Morrissey, commander of the 94th Army Air and Missile Defense Command attended…
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Newsweek: The U.S. military has conducted a successful test of a missile defense system, which could significantly improve the country’s ability to shoot down a nuclear-armed missile fired by an enemy state. On October 26, staff from the Missile Defense Agency and the Navy fired an SM-3 Block IIA missile from the USS John Finn in…
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IFLScience: For the second time in a row, the Department of Defense has successfully tested a key missile defense system capable of detecting, tracking, and ultimately striking down an enemy ballistic missile. On October 26, the US Missile Defense Agency (MDA) launched an “enemy” medium-range ballistic missile from the Pacific Missile Range Facility in Kauai,…
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Reuters: WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. military said it successfully tested a key missile defense system on Friday, in a milestone that experts say shows a growing U.S. capability to knock down an incoming, medium-range missile from countries like North Korea and Iran. The Aegis system used in the latest test was fitted with a…
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The Washington Examiner: The decision to withdraw from the INF is getting praise in some quarters, including from some of Trump’s harshest critics. “Just because President Trump does something doesn’t mean it’s wrong,” writes Max Boot in the Washington Post. “Declaring that the United States is ready to walk away is a good first step…
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Media Line: Russia’s deployment in the coming weeks of advanced the S-300 missile defense system in Syria will limit air strikes carried out by Israel and the U.S.-led coalition against the Islamic State but not stop them entirely, according to defense analysts. “On the geopolitical level, the provision of the S-300 to Syria would certainly…
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Defense One: Today, it’s Tesla Roadsters; tomorrow, space lasers? SpaceX’s president and CEO says the firm would consider launching weapons into orbit for the U.S. government, if asked. “If it’s for the defense of this country, yes, I think we would,” Gwynne Shotwell said, in response to a question about SpaceX’s willingness to launch “offensive…
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Inside Defense: The Defense Department is putting the final pieces in place for its Spaced-based Kill Assessment project that aims to give combatant commanders the ability to determine whether an interceptor hit or missed an enemy ballistic missile, a new capability to help inform whether a second shot needs to be taken against an incoming…
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